Texcoco

See Tezcuco. Texel (tek's el). An island in the North Sea, belonging to the Netherlands. It lies north of North Holland (separated by the Marsdiep). The surface is low. Its neighborhood has been the scene of many naval engagements. Length, 15 miles. Population, about 6,000. Texier (tes-yā'), Charles Félix Marie. Born at Versailles, France, Aug. 29, 1802: died at Paris, July 1, 1871. A French archæologist and traveler. Among his works are "Description de l'Asie Mineure" (1839-48), "Description del'Arménie, de la Perse, de la Mésopotamie" (1842-45), etc. Teyde, Pico de. See Pico de Teyde . (tath - kät-le-pökä). In Aztec Tezcatlipoca (tath-kät-le-põ (Mexican) mythology, one of the supreme gods, the soul of the world and its creator, supposed to be endowed with perpetual youth. On the teocalli at Mexico he had a chapel near that of Huitzilopochtli. Occasional human sacrifices were made to him. The victim (said by some to represent the god himself) was selected a year before, and was a young man of perfect form. He was kept under a kind of tutelage for the ceremony, but was allowed every pleasure; beautiful girls were given him for companions; and at feasts he was honored as a divinity. On the day of the sacrifice he was stripped of his gaudy clothes, and while ascending to the temple threw away his chaplets of flowers and broke his musical instruments. Tezcotzinco (tās-kōt-sen'kō). A hill about 5 miles east of the town of Tezcuco, Mexico. It was a garden or park and country residence of the ancient chiefs of Tezcuco. Ixtlilxochitl describes it as a place of wonderful beauty, adorned with fountains, baths, and palaces: but this description is probably exaggerated. It over is said to have been a favorite retreat of Netzahualcoyotl (which see). The place is marked by a few ruins ov grown with vegetation. Some small artificial pools are erroneously called the Baths of Monte zum a. Tezcucans (tās-köʻkans), or Texcocans (tās Teviotdale (te'vi-ot-dal). A name often given to Roxburghshire. Tewa (ta'wa), or Taywah, or Tegua, or Tehua. ['Houses.'] A division of the Tañoan linguistic stock of North American Indians, occupying the pueblos of Pojoaque, Nambé, San Ildefonso, ko'kans), or Acolhuans (ä-kōl'ö-ans). An San Juan, Santa Clara, and Tesuque, in the Rio Grande valley, New Mexico, and the pueblo of Hano which forms one of the Tusayan group in northeastern Arizona. Number (1893), 1,100, Tewfik Pasha (tū'fik pash'a), Mohammed. Born Nov. 15, 1852: died in his palace near ancient Nahuatl tribe of the valley of Mexico. Some traditions make them the offspring of the semi-mythical race called Chichimecs. About 1120 they settled at Tenayucan or Tezcuco, then on the eastern shore of the lake, and this soon became the most powerful pueblo of the valley. Early in the 15th century they were, for a time, con the subsequently they joined in